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Published on 02-21-2014 10:00 AM
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Welcome to the Wowza Streaming Engine EC2 Support Center! This site is designed to help you get up-and-running with Wowza Streaming Engine™ for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Amazon EC2 is a web service from Amazon that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Amazon EC2 is a cloud-computing platform that virtualizes computing resources as virtual machines. A single virtual machine configuration is registered as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). Wowza Media Systems® provides public Amazon Linux AMIs with pre-configured and tuned versions of Wowza Streaming Engine software that are ready to start using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Management Console. You can use these AMIs as needed to launch Wowza Streaming Engine for Amazon EC2 instances, paying for your running instance time, storage, and bandwidth only while the instances are running. You can launch Wowza Streaming Engine instances in specific geographical locations that are closer to your audience to reduce latency and in multiple geographical locations to provide high levels of redundancy.

Getting started

If you aren't familiar with how the Wowza Streaming Engine software works, we recommend that you install it on your local computer and try it out. You can get a free 180-day trial license for the software after you complete a Wowza Streaming Engine Trial request form. The Wowza Streaming Engine Trial Edition download includes the Wowza Streaming Engine software, documentation, and examples. To get your local media server up-and-running quickly, you can use the Wowza Streaming Engine Quick Start Guides and our Tutorials. The Wowza Streaming Engine User's Guide contains more comprehensive documentation about how to install and use the software.

You can configure applications in your Wowza Streaming Engine EC2 instance as HTTP caching origins to an Amazon CloudFront distribution for delivery of on demand and live streams using Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (Adobe HDS), Apple HTTP Live Streaming (Apple HLS), Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and MPEG-DASH streaming protocols. A CloudFront distribution is an HTTP caching infrastructure that enables you to distribute content using a worldwide network of edge locations that provide low latency and high data transfer speeds. CloudFront automatically routes requests for your streams to an optimal edge location so the stream is delivered with the best possible performance.

The Wowza Streaming Engine forums are a great resource of information on how to install and use Wowza Streaming Engine software. To find a simple solution quickly, we recommend that you search the forums for any issue you may have.

When you send an email support request to support@wowza.com, be sure to indicate the nature of your request in the Subject line and provide the following information in the body of the email message.

Wowza Streaming Engine version and build number

Last four digits of license key

Platform, operating system, and Java version on which Wowza Streaming Engine is running

We also recommend that you send a compressed (zipped) folder that includes the [install-dir]/logs, [install-dir]/conf, and [install-dir]/transcoder folders from your Wowza Streaming Engine installation. See How to create a compressed zip file in Windows, OS X, and Linux for instructions on how to create a ZIP file.

Amazon handles billing and payments, and software charges that appear on your monthly AWS billing statement. This includes billing for Amazon EC2 instance usage and bandwidth consumption, Amazon Simple Storage Services (Amazon S3), and Wowza Streaming Engine charges that accrue when using the AWS Marketplace Standard or DevPay licensing models. Wowza Media Systems has no insight into how the AWS billing system works. To address Amazon-related billing issues, you must create a support case in the AWS Support Dashboard. For more information about Amazon Web Services, see the AWS Support Center.

This guide describes the minimum requirements to launch a Wowza Streaming Engine™ for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, and stream your first video. To learn more about how to enable additional streaming formats and for more advanced deployment scenarios, see the Wowza Streaming Engine for Amazon EC2 User's Guide.
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a cloud-computing platform that virtualizes computing resources as virtual machines. A single virtual machine configuration is registered as an item called an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). Wowza Media Systems® provides the public AMIs described in this article, which are pre-configured with Wowza Streaming Engine™ 4.1.2. You can select one of the pre-configured AMIs to automatically launch and configure a Wowza Streaming Engine 4.1.2 for EC2 instance in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Management Console.
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A CloudFront distribution is an HTTP caching infrastructure that enables you to distribute content by using a worldwide network of edge locations that provide low latency and high data transfer speeds. Wowza Streaming Engine™ can be used as an HTTP caching origin to an Amazon CloudFront distribution for delivery of video on demand (VOD) and live streams by using the Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS), Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and MPEG-DASH streaming protocols. This article describes how to configure the streaming applications in your EC2 instance and attach them to a CloudFront distribution.
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